Listening to an earlier Java : : aesthetics, gender, and the music of wayang in central Java / / Sarah Weiss.
In \'old-style\' Central Javanese wayang , still known to many shadow-puppet performers and musicians in Java today, the male dhalang and his primary accompanist, usually a female gender player, are gendered embodiments of a Javanese aesthetic that has its origins in early Java. Analysis o...
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (195 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Preliminary soundings
- Chapter I: Musical analysis and cultural analysis: Pathet, grimingan, and gender
- Chapter II: Competing hegemonies: The discourse on Javanese gender
- Chapter III: Flaming wombs and female gender players: Order, chaos, and gender in Central Javanese myth
- Chapter IV: Javanese rasa: Gendering emotion and restraint
- Chapter V: Listening back
- Conclusion: Final soundings
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.